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Friday, January 13, 2012

Facebook monitoring helps to improve your business and social media marketing strategy in every country. Currently, there are 5891220 Facebook users in the Pakistan, which makes it #26 in the ranking of all Facebook statistics by country.
Also, feel free to try our professional social media monitoring tool Engagement Analytics
– monitor the situation on the market, track and analyze your fans'
engagement on your Facebook page, identify key influencers, response
rates, and much more. Easily generate the data, compare them with your
competitors or with the top brands in your field.

Users & Demography for the Pakistan

Our social networking statistics show that Facebook penetration in Pakistan
is 3.32% compared to the
country's population and 31.84% in relation
to number of Internet users. The total number of FB users in Pakistan
is reaching 5891220 and grew by more than
1001000 in the last 6 months.
Comparing these nearest countries by penetration of Facebook users shows that Pakistan has
0.02% higher
FB penetration than Vanuatu
and
0.05% lower
FB penetration than US Virgin Islands.

In country after country, Facebook is toppling the incumbent local social network in what seems like an unstoppable march to global dominance.

After
overtaking Microsoft's Windows Live Profile in Portugal and Mexico in
early 2010, Facebook eclipsed StudiVZ in Germany and Google's (GOOG)
Orkut in India later that year, and soon unseated Hyves in the
Netherlands, according to metrics firm comScore. Now Facebook is poised
to triumph in what has been viewed as its ultimate popularity contest,
with comScore indicating the network is likely to dethrone Orkut in
social media-mad Brazil when its December data is released.Facebook's relentless spread is a vindication of founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg's
growth-first principle, under which the social network has focused
primarily on adding users, not building revenue, since its beginning.
Facebook will surpass 1 billion users in the next few months, analysts
say, and that population will be a huge asset it can tout to investors
as the company prepares for an initial public offering of stock as soon
as spring. "It's been really surprising to us to see how quickly
Facebook has grown, not just in Western countries or English-speaking
countries, but pretty much around the world," said Carmela Aquino of
comScore. "I think part of it is the network effect -- when you have a
big enough mass of people beginning to jump on a social network, it's
only a matter of time that their friends get on the same network, and it
starts to spread."Facebook is now used by more than half the
population in the U.S. and a number of other countries, according to
analytics company Socialbakers, but its growth is slowing in North
America and much of Europe as it approaches a saturation point. Still,
as Facebook prepares for its IPO, the Menlo Park-based social networking
company's massive expansion in countries like Brazil, India, Mexico,
South Korea and Vietnam suggests the social network has a bright future.
For investors, Facebook's rise in Asia, South America and other
developing nations "is a proof point that they can make it everywhere in
the world," said Jan Rezab, CEO of Socialbakers. He believes the social
network's user population could swell from more than 800 million to 1
billion as soon as April, a threshold that would be a selling point for
potential buyers of its stock. "I think they are going to announce it
with the IPO; I think that's the strategic thing to do," Rezab said.Facebook,
which started in 2004 as a way for students at Ivy League universities
and Stanford to socialize and didn't open up to the public until 2006,
first saw a majority of its traffic coming from outside the U.S. in
2009, according to Socialbakers. Now more than four out of five Facebook
users log on from other countries.Other online social networks also have a global draw. U.S.-based Twitter
and LinkedIn pull a large majority of their visitors from outside the
U.S. Even the most popular Russian social network, VKontakte, draws 43
percent of its traffic from outside Russia, according to a recent
comScore study on the growth of social networks, which now reach 82
percent of the world's online population, or 1.2 billion people.Just
two years ago, 46 percent of visits to LinkedIn, the professional
social network, came from outside the U.S., according to data comScore
prepared at the request of this newspaper. Now 62 percent come from
outside the U.S.That sense of a borderless world for successful
social networks is nowhere more true than in Brazil, the world's
fifth-largest country, where Google's Orkut had been the entrenched king
for years. Orkut had six times the volume of Facebook's monthly traffic
as recently as January 2010. But while Orkut continued to grow,
Facebook's Brazilian traffic erupted in 2011, according to comScore.People
familiar with the Brazilian Internet market say there were many factors
in Facebook's sudden rise in the South American nation of 200 million
people, including Facebook's availability in the local language and the
globalization of people's social ties.Compared with Orkut,
"Facebook is much more universal, and there are a lot of ex-Brazilians
living outside Brazil," said Ron Czerny, CEO of PlayPhone, a mobile
gaming platform that uses Facebook and Orkut to promote its games and
has offices in Silicon Valley and Brazil. "The fact that they can
connect to their friends and family, that helped (Facebook) a lot."Czerny,
who is Brazilian, said the availability of games on Facebook in the
Brazilian dialect of Portuguese was another big boost. The aura of
American hipness and fashion that many Brazilians associated with
Facebook also held sway with many people, said Czerny and others.At
the beginning of 2010, Facebook was not the leading social network in
13 of the 43 international markets tracked by comScore. That has now
dropped to six of those countries, including China, where it is blocked
by the government.Facebook believes there were other factors in
its global adoption, particularly the software application launched in
2008 that allows users to collaborate to rapidly build a model that
translates Facebook into their local language.Facebook also made a
key move in its purchase last year of mobile technology company Snaptu,
which made software that allows more than 2,500 models of more
basic-feature phones to access Facebook with much of the same
functionality as an iPhone or Android smartphone. That opened a gateway
to Facebook in countries where few people can afford a smartphone or a
PC to go online.Rezab also said the linguistic translation
abilities of Facebook are key because it helps Facebook feel like a
local experience instead of a Silicon Valley import."The majority
of the content on Facebook, or YouTube for that matter, is purely
local," Rezab said. "These networks succeeded by being globally local,
if you know what I mean."

Contact Mike Swift at 408-271-3648. Follow him at Twitter.com/swiftstories or facebook.com/mike.swift3.

Thursday, January 12, 2012

On Socialbakers.com you can find daily updated Facebook
Statistics from over 200 different countries.
If you click on a country, you will be able to see Facebook statistics
together with demography and a graph in time.

Facebook monitoring helps to improve your business and social media marketing strategy in every country. Currently, there are 5891220 Facebook users in the Pakistan, which makes it #26 in the ranking of all Facebook statistics by country.
Also, feel free to try our professional social media monitoring tool Engagement Analytics
– monitor the situation on the market, track and analyze your fans'
engagement on your Facebook page, identify key influencers, response
rates, and much more. Easily generate the data, compare them with your
competitors or with the top brands in your field.

Users & Demography for the Pakistan

Our social networking statistics show that Facebook penetration in Pakistan
is 3.32% compared to the
country's population and 31.84% in relation
to number of Internet users. The total number of FB users in Pakistan
is reaching 5891220 and grew by more than
1001000 in the last 6 months.
Comparing these nearest countries by penetration of Facebook users shows that Pakistan has
0.02% higher
FB penetration than Vanuatu
and
0.05% lower
FB penetration than US Virgin Islands.

User age distribution on Facebook in Pakistan

Pakistan Facebook demographics is other social media statistics we monitor. The largest age group is currently
18 - 24 with total of 2 945 610 users,
followed by the users in the age of 25 - 34.

Male/Female User Ratio on Facebook in Pakistan

There are 68% male users and 32% female users in Pakistan,
compared to
56% and 44%
in Japan
and
48% and 52%
in Netherlands
.

On the graph below you can see that the biggest gain in the
last 3 months was recorded by the age group of 18 - 24.

http://www.socialbakers.com/facebook-statistics/pakistan

Twitter Revolution in Pakistan?

Dramatic expansion of the nation's middle class in the last decade has
spawned telecom and media revolutions in Pakistan. Number of radio
stations, television channels, mobile phone subscribers and Internet
users have all experienced unprecedented growth since the turn of the
century.

The level of Internet penetration is Pakistan is still low. In a
population of 177 million, only 18.5 million (10.4 percent) are
connected to the Internet, though government officials quote a slightly
higher figure of 20 million. Although it's twice that of India's
Internet penetration of about 5%, Pakistan's penetration percentage is
less than those in Tunisia (33.4 percent) and Egypt (21.1 percent).
However, Internet use in Pakistan is growing at a rapid rate,
particularly in urban centers where 40% of the population lives, which
are also home to the middle class which often forms the backbone of
mass-scale uprisings. Mobile Internet use shot up 161 percent in 2010
alone.

Pakistan figures prominently in the population of users of Facebook and
Twitter, two of the most popular social networking sites.

In terms of Facebook users in Asia, South Korea saw the largest increase
of 65%, between March 01 2010 and June 01 2010. Other countries with
double-digit growth rate are Thailand with 28.3%, India 27.7%, Japan
21%, Pakistan 12.9%, Malaysia 12.3%, and Vietnam 10.4%. Compared to
figures extracted in March 2010, total Facebook users in Indonesia and
Taiwan have shown decline, according to Grey Review.

According to Alexa, Twitter.com is the number twelve website in the
world. It also ranks at number twelve in the United States. Outside the
United States, Twitter is the eighth largest website in South Africa.
The United Kingdom, Pakistan, and the Philippines all have Twitter as
their tenth largest website, according to The Next Web.

Pakistan saw the beginnings of online civil and political activism in
2008-2009 when the lawyers, according to Woodrow Wilson Center's scholar
Huma Yusuf, "used chat forums, YouTube videos, Twitter feeds, and blogs
to organize the Long March, publicize its various events and routes,
and ensure that citizen reporting live from the march itself can be
widely circulated to counter the government-influenced coverage of the
protest on mainstream media outlets (such as state-owned radio and
private news channels relying on government-issue licenses".

With Pakistan's youth bulge and rapid growth in online user population,
it is natural to ask if an Egyptian or Tunisian style youth-led
revolution is on the horizon in the South Asian nation? Can the current
disgust with the the failed political, military and intelligence
establishment catalyze a mass youth uprising against the established
order?

By Jawwad Jafri of Converge Technologies
LinkedIn, the World’s largest professional networking website has more than 700,000 members from Pakistan.
This places Pakistan in the 18th spot just behind Sweden but ahead of Denmark and Philippines.
Though the penetration rate is not sizable enough, but given the huge head count of Pakistani internet audience, Pakistan is easily placed as one of most populated communities on LinkedIn.
While the growth of social mediums like Facebook and Twitter has often been analyzed and debated, LinkedIn continues to grow in Pakistani market without causing a major uproar.
According to Alexa, LinkedIn is the 10th most visited website in Pakistan.

LinkedIn is helpful in multiple ways. Firstly, it helps people
connect with their professional network without exposing their personal
lives to everyone like on Facebook. Members can communicate with each
other through private inbox messages.

One great feature on LinkedIn is the Groups. While the concept of
groups is nothing new, the quality of Groups on LinkedIn is far superior
to other websites. Each specialty area has a niche group and if not you
can always create one. Experts from around the world are available to
help and guide each other which makes the experience extremely
rewarding.

Apart from the experience and learning for members, there are more
perks of being a LinkedIn member. Headhunters are increasingly turning
towards LinkedIn to screen and shortlist their candidates. The members
who are highly active on Groups and establish themselves as “Subject
Experts” get easily shortlisted. Also, the recommendations that each
member accumulates for his past performances play a vital role in
getting shortlisted by headhunters.

The major competition for LinkedIn in Pakistan comes from Rozee.pk which is the 19th
most visited website in Pakistan. Rozee.pk focuses only on job
opportunities and is the favorite of local crowd when it comes to online
job application.

However, LinkedIn is emerging as a tough competitor even in this
space. The power that LinkedIn has and Rozee.pk lacks comes from the
professional network and recommendations that is the core of LinkedIn.

For young professionals who are looking to move up the ladder in
their career, LinkedIn is an extremely helpful resource which should not
be ignored.

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Following a landmark year for location based services, mobile marketers are looking towards 2012 as the year when location based technology will pervade many of the services available on users’ handsets.

Last year Foursquare reported that over 15 million users and 600,000
businesses had joined the platform, resulting in over a billion
check-ins. Location technology is firmly on the radar for many leading
brands, and makes up a key part of the agenda at SMWF Europe in London
in March.

Last month Facebook confirmed it was stepping up its assault on the
lucrative location-sharing market with the acquisition of Gowalla in
early December, expected to close as a stand-alone service later this
month.

The increasing spread of ever more sophisticated smartphone handsets,
combined with the continuing development of apps powered by geolocation
technology, like that from companies like Navteq, is crucial to this
developing trend, providing a whole new angle of relevance for marketers
and brands.

Navteq, one of the leading providers of location data for developers, said:

“Hyper-local mobile advertising can target consumers in a
non-intrusive way when they are near a merchant’s location and then
guide them to the front door. This effectively transforms mobile into a
direct response channel for retail, restaurants, cinemas, petrol
stations, and any business that benefits from getting consumers in the
door.”

Savvy marketers are now using location-based technology to reach
potential customers in the immediate vicinity. Business listings on
services like Foursquare, Loopt, Brightkite, and Google Places have
become crucial weapons in the marketing arsenal as the industry waits
for this trend to explode across the world.

The rise of social check-in apps has added a new dimension to the
trend, using reward, word of mouth recommendation and viral to directly
influence peoples’ purchasing behaviour. They allow businesses to
interact directly with customers, creating communities with an added
level of engagement based in real-world behaviours.

This year’s Social Media World Forum Europe will be looking in-depth at location based marketing, covering topics including:

• Harnessing the power of mobile data through location based apps – how to turn location information into consumer engagement?

• Analyse of consumer behaviour – who are the consumers of location
based services (who, how many, how old), what do they respond to well
and how can you most effectively manage your communication /
relationship with them?

• Are these social tools going to bring about a mobile commerce revolution?

• Using the mobile presence of facebook to promote deals, sales and encourage on the move purchases

Marketing is all about getting noticed, getting remembered, and
motivating people to action. Whether it's a website, display ad,
or video, it must first grab people's attention, it must stop
the viewer from going onto the next website, turning the
magazine page, or clicking the stop button. In order to
accomplish that increasingly difficult task, you must
understand the Caricature Effect.

The Caricature Effect

The Caricature Effect simply stated says that what we notice is
variation from the norm. Caricature artists exaggerate reality
because that is how we visually distinguish one person from
another. Human beings are preprogrammed to look for patterns and
variations in those patterns, it's how we recognize who people
are, and it is a basic survival mechanism that helps us recognize
danger and distinguish friend from foe.

By distorting an individual's prominent facial features the
caricature artist mimics the human brain's way of remembering
who's who. Our brains are not cameras that take pictures and
file them away for future reference. Our memories are malleable,
they change and alter over time and experience, and as a result
the things we remember best are the things that stand out,
things like Bob Hope's ski-jump nose or Albert Einstein's wild
white hair. The reason caricatures are so effective is because
they emphasize the distinguishing differences that we recognize
and remember. So how do we use this fundamental, hard-wired
human characteristic to further marketing agendas?

What We Notice Is Variation From The Norm

Getting noticed is job-one of any marketing vehicle, so in order
to get people to stop, look, and listen we need to use all the
available communication elements at our disposal.

When developing a video campaign we use concepts that demand the
mental processing of information by shocking, stimulating,
puzzling, or tickling the funny bone of the viewer. These
techniques force the audience to think, process, and decode the
message, and by generating this mental activity we embed our
client's message in the audience's consciousness. Depending on
the brand and/or product, implementation can range from subtle
to obvious with the trick being to make people sit-up and take
notice by forcing them to think.

Pattern Recognition - The Same But Different

Human beings have evolved to watch for patterns and when an
audience recognizes a familiar scenario they leap to a
conclusion. It's a way of making quick decisive decisions that
can either help or hurt communication. Properly used pattern
recognition can lead your audience where you want to take them,
but if the pattern is too obvious or hackneyed, it can lead to
viewers dismissing your message.

Let's face-it, consumers have become increasingly jaded by too
many ads that yell at them like a Billy Mays commercial, or
promise improbable results like so many diet schemes, or scare
the hell out of people with legal disclaimers warning of
everything from headaches to heart attacks like most
prescription drug ads. These feeble attempts to standout like
a pair of John Daley golf slacks only succeed in reminding the
audience how completely desperate, or disengaged the advertiser
really is.

If you want people to remember your message you have to alter
the pattern by varying from the norm so that it forces people to
mentally process your information. It's as simple as a story
with a twist like how a comedian sets-up a punch line, or how a
magician sets-up an illusion.

In other articles I've written extensively about techniques for
using video but here let's discuss something even more universal
- photography. It is one of the most economical ways to create
the kind of mental stimulation that makes people remember your
site and your message.

Photo-Visual Engagement Techniques

Most every website has photography of some sort on it, but like
most video implementations, it is rarely used to its full
potential. Obviously, do-it-yourself snapshots reek of amateurism
but even professional royalty-free images can be as innocuous as
DIY snaps are unprofessional, and as we have stated, bland,
featureless images are just not going to stimulate anyone's
memory.

Cinegraphs

Cinegraphs are photographs that move. They are created by
combining a series of still images into a gif animation. The
best cinegraphs use subtle movement like hair or clothing
blowing in the wind to cause the audience to take a second look.
What appears at first to be a regular photograph creates a "Did
I just see it move?" reaction, and that's the kind of subtle yet
powerful feature that can get people to remember your site, your
product, and your brand.
Like any technique you have to know how and when to use it in
order to enhance your presentation and reinforce your message.
Just parachuting in a technique for technique's sake is no
better than a meaningless royalty free image used as filler.

Sequence Images

A sequence image is a still image that combines a series of
images into one photo. Unlike cinegraphs, the image doesn't move
but it does provide a kinetic quality by showing a series of
varying poses all combined into one photograph. This kind of
image can be very striking and powerful and can cause your
viewer to take a moment to decode the story it tells.

Selective Color

Color is another area that often gets forgotten. Different
colors have different psychological effects depending on the
context in which they are used. In addition to the color choice,
using color as a consistent marketing communication element
helps enhance and embed your identity and brand image. Many
Internet entrepreneurs pay little or no attention to color
imaging and it is really unfortunate as it is often an
inexpensive but effective way of making a profound impression.

Photographs today are generally full color images but if you're
not controlling the color in your images then you're missing a
great chance to make a memorable impression. Of course lack
of color (black and white photography) can be just as powerful
if used properly. Jack Daniel's is a brand that uses black and
white and selective color extensively in its marketing.

There are several ways to use selective color in your
photographic imaging. Jack Daniel's uses a lot of black
backgrounds or B&W photos and copy combined with color product
shots of the bottle that has a B&W label but is filled with the
golden elixir.

Educating Your Visitors - The Power of Giving and User-Friendly Websites

A SPN Exclusive Article By David Jackson (c) 2012

I've been involved in sales and marketing for over twenty
years - half my adúlt life. And sometimes I still get confused
when I browse the Internet and visit websites searching for
information, or to make a purchase. I'm absolutely amazed at
how complicated some marketers make doing business on the internet.

Let's talk about searching for information for a moment. After
all, most people go online not to purchase anything, but rather to
search for information to solve a problem they have. Knowing
this is important, because if you understand that the Internet
is driven by information and information seekers, as a marketer,
you can kill two birds with one stone, so to speak.

1. You can provide information seekers with the information
they're looking for.

2. You can educate potential prospects and turn them into
customers.

Educate Your Visitors First

If you visit my website, you won't see any
banners or advertising of any kind. Why? Because I built my site
as a free marketing resource to educate my visitors. I'm not
selling anything, so the only thing you'll see on my site is
free information... lots and lots of free information.

So how do I monetize my site? How do I make any money? Well,
people read my marketing articles on highly-respected websites
like SiteProNews, then they visit my website. And between the
advice I dispense in my articles and on my site, as well as
select small business forums, people can determine for themselves
if I know what I'm talking about. Once they become convinced of
my expertise, they inquire about my marketing consulting
services... become satisfied clients, word-of-mouth kicks in,
and voila... my cup runneth over!

In other words, I create content to educate people and help them
solve a particular problem. And I do this without an agenda -
without asking for anything in return. But a funny thing happens
when you educate people - provided the information has value and
is accurate. You enhance your credibility and boost the
value of your products and services.

And this method of marketing works regardless of what you're
selling - even if you sell something as nondescript as a glue
stick. Yes, a glue stick! Become the glue stick expert. For
example, you can create content about the glue stick industry
and related products. Educate people about glue sticks. Enhance
your company's credibility, and boost the value of your
products and services.

1. Have fast-loading pages. Slow loading pages are annoying to
searchers and affects their ability to access

content quickly.
If your pages load slowly, this may frustrate visitors and cause
them to exit your site, not ever to return.

You can quickly check your page speed at Page Speed Online, a free web
application offered by Googlelabs. This tool tests the speed
of your page and gives it a score from 1-100, based on the
performance of your page. The Page Speed Score indicates how
much faster a page could be. A high score indicates little room
for improvement, while a lower score indicates more room for
improvement. In other words, the higher the score, the better.
The Page Speed Score does not measure the time it takes for a
page to load - just whether or not it loads quickly. If you
score on the lower end of the scale, read "How to Speed Up Web
Pages," to learn what you can do to
speed up your pages.

2. Have a crystal clear identity. Have you ever landed on a
website and didn't know what it was about? How did you feel?
You didn't like it did you? And I'll bet you probably clicked
out of there pretty quickly. Well, your visitors don't like it
either. Don't let your visitors have to try and figure out what
your website is all about. Make it crystal clear, right from the
beginning. Having a big, descriptive headline on your home page
is an excellent way to announce what your website is about.
Also, choose relevant keywords for your pages, as opposed to
trying to trick people just to get eyeballs. Keep your keywords
relevant to your web pages.

4. Stay away from clutter. Have a clean, user-friendly site that
makes it easy for visitors to find what they're looking for.
Remember, white space is a good thing. Also, if your website has
a lot of content and/or pages, add a search box, to make it
easier for your visitors to find what they're looking for.

The industry is very focused on the how-tos of
mobile advertising and what to do to ensure successful efforts. Now,
here is a list of what not to do.

The mobile
advertising industry is maturing at a rapid speed and although there are
a few noteworthy and jaw-dropping executions, there are also a lot of
efforts that miss the mark. There are some common pitfalls that brands
and marketers must avoid.

“Making the consumer
work,” said Joy Liuzzo, Washington-based vice president and director of
InsightExpress. “I’ve seen advertisers use creative that is barely
branded or with logos that are very small and tucked off into a corner
and wonder why their ad didn’t perform as well as they would have liked.

“This should be one of the easiest pitfalls
to avoid, but too often we see advertisers sacrificing branding for
other elements of the ad,” she said. “With mobile and even tablet
screens being on the small side and time being a premium, most
consumers are not going to take the extra second to squint to see who
the advertiser is on their device.

“Sticking
with the tried and true [is another pitfall to avoid]. Mobile is new and
exciting for consumers, providing them with potential new experiences
and interactions each day. When advertisers take advantage of that and
push the envelope with campaigns, it pays off more than if they stuck
with a modified version of what they've done on other platforms.”

Elena
Perez, director of marketing at Medialets, New York, said that one of
the major pitfalls marketers need to avoid has to do with the buying
process.

Buying, creative, cross-platform

Ms.
Perez said that brands and agencies should understand that mobile can
be bought, planned and measured with the same quality, control and
transparency they would expect from other media.

“They
may not realize that premium publishers have largely embraced mobile
and are enabling direct sales of smartphone and tablet inventory just as
they do for other media,” Ms. Perez said. “As such, mobile can be
bought as an extension of a digital or traditional buy or purchased
through a platform that enables completely transparent, direct buys
across multiple publishers.

“When planning and
budgeting for creative development, it's important to be familiar with
the differences in mobile creative versus online,” she said. “A
fundamental distinction is that most mobile devices don’t support
Flash.

“That doesn't limit your ability to
build interesting creative—on the contrary you can still create
exceptionally rich ads for mobile with HTML5 and JavaScript—but it
should be factored into the budget and plan.”

The mobile device’s support for touch instead of clicks is important to remember, per Ms. Perez.

Touch instead of click should be remembered within the ad copy, encouraging taps and not clicks.

Additionally, brands and marketers need to remember that the mobile world goes beyond just iOS.

“For
all the buzz that iOS generates, brands and agencies should keep in
mind that Android continues to gain market share – close to 50 percent
of smartphone audiences, according to recent a Comscore Mobilens report –
and represents a meaningful audience,” Ms. Perez said.

“Likewise,
the ability to use one provider for both iOS and Android platforms, as
well as mobile apps and Web sites, and smartphones and tablets makes the
entire campaign process – from ad creation to delivery to the
measurement of success – more efficient and cost-effective.”

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Here are the Stats for LinkedIn Usage by country. The information is at 5 April 2010 and was sourced from the AppAppeal website.
SUMMARY – LinkedIn is very popular in South Africa and Nigeria in
Africa. In South Africa it is the most 11th most popular site in terms
of average daily visitors and pageviews.

9th most popular site in:

Netherlands

10th most popular site in:

Ireland

11th most popular site in:

South Africa
Israel

12th most popular site in:

the USA
India
Canada
Pakistan

13th most popular site in:

United Kingdom
Nigeria
Denmark

MORE DETAIL

Netherlands

LinkedIn is the 9th most popular site in Netherlands based on a
combination of average daily visitors and pageviews. 3.5% of the
LinkedIn users come from Netherlands and they generate 3.5% of the
pageviews on LinkedIn.

Ireland

LinkedIn is the 10th most popular site in Ireland based on a
combination of average daily visitors and pageviews. 0.7% of the
LinkedIn users come from Ireland and they generate 0.8% of the pageviews
on LinkedIn.

South Africa and Israel

LinkedIn is the 11th most popular site in South Africa and Israel
based on a combination of average daily visitors and pageviews. 1.4% of
the LinkedIn users come from South Africa and they generate 1.2% of the
pageviews on LinkedIn. 0.6% of the LinkedIn users come from Israel and
they generate 0.7% of the pageviews on LinkedIn.

the USA, India, Canada, and Pakistan

LinkedIn is the 12th most popular site in the USA, India, Canada,
and Pakistan based on a combination of average daily visitors and
pageviews. 37.9% of the LinkedIn users come from the USA and they
generate 37.6% of the pageviews on LinkedIn. 10.4% of the LinkedIn users
come from India and they generate 13.0% of the pageviews on LinkedIn.
3.2% of the LinkedIn users come from Canada and they generate 3.1% of
the pageviews on LinkedIn. 1.2% of the LinkedIn users come from Pakistan
and they generate 1.5% of the pageviews on LinkedIn.

United Kingdom, Nigeria, and Denmark

LinkedIn is the 13th most popular site in United Kingdom, Nigeria,
and Denmark based on a combination of average daily visitors and
pageviews. 6.9% of the LinkedIn users come from United Kingdom and they
generate 7.4% of the pageviews on LinkedIn. 0.7% of the LinkedIn users
come from Nigeria and they generate 0.6% of the pageviews on LinkedIn.
0.7% of the LinkedIn users come from Denmark and they generate 0.5% of
the pageviews on LinkedIn.

Australia

LinkedIn is the 14th most popular site in Australia based on a
combination of average daily visitors and pageviews. 2.0% of the
LinkedIn users come from Australia and they generate 1.9% of the
pageviews on LinkedIn.

Spain and Belgium

LinkedIn is the 16th most popular site in Spain and Belgium based on
a combination of average daily visitors and pageviews. 3.0% of the
LinkedIn users come from Spain and they generate 3.3% of the pageviews
on LinkedIn. 0.6% of the LinkedIn users come from Belgium and they
generate 0.5% of the pageviews on LinkedIn.

Italy

LinkedIn is the 17th most popular site in Italy based on a
combination of average daily visitors and pageviews. 3.3% of the
LinkedIn users come from Italy and they generate 3.1% of the pageviews
on LinkedIn.

Sweden

LinkedIn is the 21st most popular site in Sweden based on a
combination of average daily visitors and pageviews. 0.8% of the
LinkedIn users come from Sweden and they generate 0.6% of the pageviews
on LinkedIn.

Argentina

LinkedIn is the 23rd most popular site in Argentina based on a
combination of average daily visitors and pageviews. 0.8% of the
LinkedIn users come from Argentina and they generate 0.8% of the
pageviews on LinkedIn.

Mexico

LinkedIn is the 35th most popular site in Mexico based on a
combination of average daily visitors and pageviews. 1.0% of the
LinkedIn users come from Mexico and they generate 0.9% of the pageviews
on LinkedIn.

France and South Korea

LinkedIn is the 37th most popular site in France and South Korea
based on a combination of average daily visitors and pageviews. 2.2% of
the LinkedIn users come from France and they generate 1.7% of the
pageviews on LinkedIn. 0.6% of the LinkedIn users come from South Korea
and they generate 0.8% of the pageviews on LinkedIn.

Brazil

LinkedIn is the 38th most popular site in Brazil based on a
combination of average daily visitors and pageviews. 1.7% of the
LinkedIn users come from Brazil and they generate 1.6% of the pageviews
on LinkedIn.

Germany

LinkedIn is the 67th most popular site in Germany based on a
combination of average daily visitors and pageviews. 2.1% of the
LinkedIn users come from Germany and they generate 1.4% of the pageviews
on LinkedIn.

Russia

LinkedIn is the 90th most popular site in Russia based on a
combination of average daily visitors and pageviews. 1.1% of the
LinkedIn users come from Russia and they generate 1.1% of the pageviews
on LinkedIn.

China

LinkedIn is the 229th most popular site in China based on a
combination of average daily visitors and pageviews. 1.5% of the
LinkedIn users come from China and they generate 1.7% of the pageviews
on LinkedIn.

Japan

LinkedIn is the 256th most popular site in Japan based on a
combination of average daily visitors and pageviews. 0.8% of the
LinkedIn users come from Japan and they generate 0.6% of the pageviews
on LinkedIn.

Read the LinkedIn review or read the usage data of LinkedIn for the following 29 countries:

Netherlands

LinkedIn is the 7th most popular site in Netherlands based on a
combination of average daily visitors and pageviews. 3.1% of the LinkedIn users come from Netherlands and they generate 3.1% of the pageviews on LinkedIn.

India and Ireland

LinkedIn is the 8th most popular site in India and Ireland based
on a combination of average daily visitors and pageviews. 10.6% of the LinkedIn users come from India and they generate 13.2% of the pageviews on LinkedIn. 0.6% of the LinkedIn users come from Ireland and they generate 0.7% of the pageviews on LinkedIn.

Belgium and Israel

LinkedIn is the 9th most popular site in Belgium and Israel based
on a combination of average daily visitors and pageviews. 0.9% of the LinkedIn users come from Belgium and they generate 0.8% of the pageviews on LinkedIn. 0.7% of the LinkedIn users come from Israel and they generate 0.9% of the pageviews on LinkedIn.

Pakistan and Denmark

LinkedIn is the 10th most popular site in Pakistan and Denmark
based on a combination of average daily visitors and pageviews. 1.3% of
the LinkedIn users come from Pakistan and they generate 2.2% of the pageviews on LinkedIn. 0.6% of the LinkedIn users come from Denmark and they generate 0.6% of the pageviews on LinkedIn.

Canada and Nigeria

LinkedIn is the 11th most popular site in Canada and Nigeria
based on a combination of average daily visitors and pageviews. 3.3% of
the LinkedIn users come from Canada and they generate 3.1% of the pageviews on LinkedIn. 0.8% of the LinkedIn users come from Nigeria and they generate 0.6% of the pageviews on LinkedIn.

United Kingdom and South Africa

LinkedIn is the 12th most popular site in United Kingdom and
South Africa based on a combination of average daily visitors and
pageviews. 6.3% of the LinkedIn users come from United Kingdom and they generate 6.5% of the pageviews on LinkedIn. 1.1% of the LinkedIn users come from South Africa and they generate 0.9% of the pageviews on LinkedIn.

the USA, Spain, Portugal, and Singapore

LinkedIn is the 13th most popular site in the USA, Spain,
Portugal, and Singapore based on a combination of average daily visitors
and pageviews. 32.5% of the LinkedIn users come from the USA and they generate 31.9% of the pageviews on LinkedIn. 3.6% of the LinkedIn users come from Spain and they generate 3.9% of the pageviews on LinkedIn. 0.6% of the LinkedIn users come from Portugal and they generate 0.6% of the pageviews on LinkedIn. 0.5% of the LinkedIn users come from Singapore and they generate 0.5% of the pageviews on LinkedIn.

Italy and Australia

LinkedIn is the 14th most popular site in Italy and Australia
based on a combination of average daily visitors and pageviews. 3.8% of
the LinkedIn users come from Italy and they generate 3.8% of the pageviews on LinkedIn. 1.8% of the LinkedIn users come from Australia and they generate 1.7% of the pageviews on LinkedIn.

France and Argentina

LinkedIn is the 16th most popular site in France and Argentina
based on a combination of average daily visitors and pageviews. 3.5% of
the LinkedIn users come from France and they generate 2.8% of the pageviews on LinkedIn. 1.1% of the LinkedIn users come from Argentina and they generate 1.2% of the pageviews on LinkedIn.

Mexico and Sweden

LinkedIn is the 19th most popular site in Mexico and Sweden based
on a combination of average daily visitors and pageviews. 1.4% of the LinkedIn users come from Mexico and they generate 1.3% of the pageviews on LinkedIn. 0.7% of the LinkedIn users come from Sweden and they generate 0.5% of the pageviews on LinkedIn.

Brazil

LinkedIn is the 25th most popular site in Brazil based on a combination of average daily visitors and pageviews. 2.3% of the LinkedIn users come from Brazil and they generate 2.2% of the pageviews on LinkedIn.

Germany and Indonesia

LinkedIn is the 45th most popular site in Germany and Indonesia
based on a combination of average daily visitors and pageviews. 2.0% of
the LinkedIn users come from Germany and they generate 1.5% of the pageviews on LinkedIn. 0.6% of the LinkedIn users come from Indonesia and they generate 0.6% of the pageviews on LinkedIn.

Turkey

LinkedIn is the 52nd most popular site in Turkey based on a combination of average daily visitors and pageviews. 0.5% of the LinkedIn users come from Turkey and they generate 0.5% of the pageviews on LinkedIn.

South Korea

LinkedIn is the 60th most popular site in South Korea based on a
combination of average daily visitors and pageviews. 0.6% of the LinkedIn users come from South Korea and they generate 0.9% of the pageviews on LinkedIn.

Russia

LinkedIn is the 85th most popular site in Russia based on a combination of average daily visitors and pageviews. 1.0% of the LinkedIn users come from Russia and they generate 0.9% of the pageviews on LinkedIn.

Japan

LinkedIn is the 121st most popular site in Japan based on a combination of average daily visitors and pageviews. 1.2% of the LinkedIn users come from Japan and they generate 1.0% of the pageviews on LinkedIn.

China

LinkedIn is the 262nd most popular site in China based on a combination of average daily visitors and pageviews. 1.1% of the LinkedIn users come from China and they generate 1.0% of the pageviews on LinkedIn.

By Jawwad Jafri of Converge Technologies
LinkedIn, the World’s largest professional networking website has more than 700,000 members from Pakistan.
This places Pakistan in the 18th spot just behind Sweden but ahead of Denmark and Philippines.
Though the penetration rate is not sizable enough, but given the huge head count of Pakistani internet audience, Pakistan is easily placed as one of most populated communities on LinkedIn.
While the growth of social mediums like Facebook and Twitter has often been analyzed and debated, LinkedIn continues to grow in Pakistani market without causing a major uproar.
According to Alexa, LinkedIn is the 10th most visited website in Pakistan.

LinkedIn is helpful in multiple ways. Firstly, it helps people
connect with their professional network without exposing their personal
lives to everyone like on Facebook. Members can communicate with each
other through private inbox messages.

One great feature on LinkedIn is the Groups. While the concept of
groups is nothing new, the quality of Groups on LinkedIn is far superior
to other websites. Each specialty area has a niche group and if not you
can always create one. Experts from around the world are available to
help and guide each other which makes the experience extremely
rewarding.

Apart from the experience and learning for members, there are more
perks of being a LinkedIn member. Headhunters are increasingly turning
towards LinkedIn to screen and shortlist their candidates. The members
who are highly active on Groups and establish themselves as “Subject
Experts” get easily shortlisted. Also, the recommendations that each
member accumulates for his past performances play a vital role in
getting shortlisted by headhunters.

The major competition for LinkedIn in Pakistan comes from Rozee.pk which is the 19th
most visited website in Pakistan. Rozee.pk focuses only on job
opportunities and is the favorite of local crowd when it comes to online
job application.

However, LinkedIn is emerging as a tough competitor even in this
space. The power that LinkedIn has and Rozee.pk lacks comes from the
professional network and recommendations that is the core of LinkedIn.

For young professionals who are looking to move up the ladder in
their career, LinkedIn is an extremely helpful resource which should not
be ignored.

KARACHI – Pakistan has over 3 million social journalists and the
number is increasing with the passage of every day with 6.2 million
users on microblogging site Twitter and over 4 million social network
Facebook users already. This was observed by top bloggers, twitteraties,
netizens and other experts from Pakistan, Indonesia and Egypt at
Pakistan’s first international social media summit jointly organised by
the US Consulat in Karachi, PC World, Intel, iRaffles Systems, Newsweek,
CityFM89 and the Express Media Group.
Apart from prominent Pakistani bloggers including Raza Rumi, Awab Alvi,
Sana Saleem, Naveen Naqvi, A.J. Shirazi, Imtiaz Muhammad, Ali Abbas
Zaidi, Shehrbano Taseer and Yasser Latif Hamadani, some international
bloggers including Mohamed El Dahshan (Egypt), Hanny Kusumawati and
Anandita Puspitasari (Indonesia), Rebecca Chia (Egypt) Ong Hock Chuan
(Malaysia), Claire Diaz Ortiz (US) and Karim Osman (The Netherlands)
also participated at the summit. Addressing on the occasion, US Consul
General in Karachi William Martin said Pakistan is one of the
fastest-growing Facebook- and Twitter-using nations in the world with
the official data revealing that it is the ninth nation which uses
Twitter the most.
“There are over 4 million Facebook users here while the US Consulate
Karachi’s Facebook page has over 30,000 fans,” he added. “The per capita
internet-access rate in Pakistan is between 10 percent and 15 percent
of the total population – more than double that of India and even at the
most conservative estimates roughly 20 million Pakistanis are online –
equivalent to the population of 4 Singapores.
“Pakistan has a lively, active blogging community, where over 3 million
citizen-journalists can freely report on and discuss any topic.
“During the last year’s floods, I saw the social media network shining
the light on this situation and many others,” said Martin. “The social
media really does create a global village and it is an honour to be here
with so many distinguished citizens. I am struck by the talent, the
imagination and the commitment I see. You all validate, you all energise
my enthusiasm, my optimism for this great nation Pakistan. From where I
stand, the future looks bright. I see leaders and visionaries that will
help realise the vast potential of the Pakistani people,” he said.
Talking on press freedom in Pakistan, the US Consul General said the
freedom was earned over time through the sacrifices of people especially
the media community. “We must never forget the journalists who were
killed or injured as they sought to report on the challenges facing us
today. They have been as brave, as selfless as any soldier on the
battlefield. I know that there are people here today that take
extraordinary risks to enlighten us all of the truth. Nobody embodied
this commitment more than Saleem Shehzad, who was senselessly murdered
trying to pursue this truth. But there is no doubt that his work will
continue and others will pick up the baton and carry on.
Renowned journalist Kamal Siddiqi said that social media is the best
platform where different social problems and taboos can be discussed
easily, which are not being reported by the traditional media.
“Recently the Pakistani media has started utilising citizen journalists
and blogging on their websites,” he said, “I believe that social media
will not disturb traditional media, but it will help the media to get
information rapidly.”
Sherbano Taseer said the social media has created an online arena where
people can talk about the grievances about their governments – referring
to the Arab uprising.
“During the Japan earthquake and tsunami, for many people Twitter became
the mode of sharing news with their family and others. Just imagine
that the videos put up by common people in Japan followed by the tsunami
received 17 million views in one night,” she added.
On a question, Taseer said the social media is overtaking the print media in Pakistan.
Different panel discussions under the title ‘Education and Good
Governance: Going Digital’, ‘Women and Social Activism in the New Media
Era’ and ‘Monetizing your Social Media Space’ were also held during the
summit.

Twitter Revolution in Pakistan?

Dramatic expansion of the nation's middle class in the last decade has
spawned telecom and media revolutions in Pakistan. Number of radio
stations, television channels, mobile phone subscribers and Internet
users have all experienced unprecedented growth since the turn of the
century.

The level of Internet penetration is Pakistan is still low. In a
population of 177 million, only 18.5 million (10.4 percent) are
connected to the Internet, though government officials quote a slightly
higher figure of 20 million. Although it's twice that of India's
Internet penetration of about 5%, Pakistan's penetration percentage is
less than those in Tunisia (33.4 percent) and Egypt (21.1 percent).
However, Internet use in Pakistan is growing at a rapid rate,
particularly in urban centers where 40% of the population lives, which
are also home to the middle class which often forms the backbone of
mass-scale uprisings. Mobile Internet use shot up 161 percent in 2010
alone.

Pakistan figures prominently in the population of users of Facebook and
Twitter, two of the most popular social networking sites.

In terms of Facebook users in Asia, South Korea saw the largest increase
of 65%, between March 01 2010 and June 01 2010. Other countries with
double-digit growth rate are Thailand with 28.3%, India 27.7%, Japan
21%, Pakistan 12.9%, Malaysia 12.3%, and Vietnam 10.4%. Compared to
figures extracted in March 2010, total Facebook users in Indonesia and
Taiwan have shown decline, according to Grey Review.

According to Alexa, Twitter.com is the number twelve website in the
world. It also ranks at number twelve in the United States. Outside the
United States, Twitter is the eighth largest website in South Africa.
The United Kingdom, Pakistan, and the Philippines all have Twitter as
their tenth largest website, according to The Next Web.

Pakistan saw the beginnings of online civil and political activism in
2008-2009 when the lawyers, according to Woodrow Wilson Center's scholar
Huma Yusuf, "used chat forums, YouTube videos, Twitter feeds, and blogs
to organize the Long March, publicize its various events and routes,
and ensure that citizen reporting live from the march itself can be
widely circulated to counter the government-influenced coverage of the
protest on mainstream media outlets (such as state-owned radio and
private news channels relying on government-issue licenses".

With Pakistan's youth bulge and rapid growth in online user population,
it is natural to ask if an Egyptian or Tunisian style youth-led
revolution is on the horizon in the South Asian nation? Can the current
disgust with the the failed political, military and intelligence
establishment catalyze a mass youth uprising against the established
order?

Monday, January 9, 2012

Mobile App Use Blowing Away Web Surfing

According to a recent blog post by Application Analytics Company Flurry, mobile app
use has grown an amazing 91% in just one year (2010-2011). Overtaking
web surfing, both desktop and mobile, mobile apps are now the go-to for
digital content acquisition.
Compared to the web mobile applications are still fairly new. Not
quite out of their toddler years in technology timelines, they have cut
their teeth on the more than 1.08 billion smart phone users worldwide,
launching growth that is annihilating that of any web-based medium
previously.
The conclusion of Flurry’ s reporting is that people in the US “like
to have their content targeted and served directly” (Flurry). With that
in mind, there is only one question left to ask. Is your brand mobile?~ Michelle Casey, Account Manager http://www.linkedin.com/news?viewArticle=&articleID=903838865&gid=62503&type=member&item=79901668&articleURL=http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FrQChzI&urlhash=vitd&goback=.gde_62503_member_79901668

Generating Leads Through LinkedIn

So what can LinkedIn do for you and how can you start generating leads?

Before I venture into some of the lead generating activity suggestions,
please spend some time on your profile and settings. Make sure that your
profile is complete, that you are incorporating keywords in your titles
and descriptions, and above all, make sure that you describe yourself
in a way that clearly delivers the value in knowing you!

1. Grow your network: LinkedIn has tools that connect directly with
Outlook and has the ability to search other email accounts to see who
you know already on LinkedIn. If you don't connect your email program,
at least perform a monthly check for new contacts in your database for
who is on LinkedIn.

Tip: Every time you go to an event carry a small envelope with the date
and name of the event. Place all the cards you collect into that
envelope and when you get back to your office start reaching out to
those people to connect and use a personalized message such as 'it was
great meeting you yesterday at the EVENT, I would love to stay in touch
and see how we might be of service to one another."

2. Updates: there is a feature much like Twitter and Facebook that
allows you to post an update that will show up on your profile and in
network updates to your connections. Use it wisely.

3. Introductions: Give them, ask for them. The idea of 6 degrees of
separation is made apparent on LinkedIn. If there is a contact at a
particular company you seek, by searching on LinkedIn you will discover
who you already know that knows who you want to know. Introductions make
a cold call a warm call and a faster track to closing a sale.

4. Get Visible: LinkedIn provides updates to members you are connected
with. Some people adjust their updates to daily, some weekly but the
point is that delivered to your connection's inbox are updates and you
should find ways to have your name show up in those updates. Read on for
some suggestions on how to accomplish this.

5. Referrals: say thanks to someone - a vendor, partner, even a customer
- for a job well done or just acknowledging some special talent or
skill that had a positive impact. Chances are they will reciprocate. And
don't be shy about asking customers to write a recommendation but be
careful to ask only those who have actually worked with you and can
speak to your professional brilliance.

6. Groups: join groups that are relevant to your business and interests
and that you can contribute to meaningfully. Groups where your prospects
participate are a good place to start. Much like real life, hanging out
with the right people is a solid step toward successful connections.

7. Books: LinkedIn provides the opportunity to mention what you are
reading or have read with a short blurb regarding the book. I could
write volumes on why this is a pivotal tool but for now just let me say
that sharing this information is a really good idea.

8. Events: the events feature on LinkedIn lets you browse what is
happening and in some cases, people will actually make notation that
they are attending. You might just find that the person you are trying
to meet will be at an event in your area.

9. Slideshare: has expanded to not just power point decks but now
includes video and other documents. This is a great way to show off some
of that industry specific knowledge that no one knows you have.

10. Blogs: LinkedIn can automatically pull in your blog posts. If you
would like to grow your reader base, or just keep your contacts in the
know with the great material you are providing through your blog, don't
forget to activate this feature.

How You Can Use LinkedIn to Get Success in Your Business and
Professional Career? Why You Should Use It? Watch this Free Presentation
at: http://LinkedinSuccess.org

Sunday, January 8, 2012

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